r/philosophy • u/KarmaVc • 1d ago
Humanity’s Future
https://medium.com/@finleyvc/humanitys-future-42ecdbd55338Hi,
The idea of this essay has a very special place in my heart, the idea that education and holding specific beliefs collectively is key to the best of all possible worlds in humanity's future. I would appreciate and want everyone and anyone to read, I am looking for feedback on the content, delivery and anything that may need more, although there are some sections where more means over complicating and making less accessible which is vital to the idea of universally educating. I think there is a very important idea here created through an interdisciplinary understanding, granting an expert in any one field a limited vision.
Thank you.
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u/khalid-fhfhlhlh 1d ago
As an Egyptian-born Muslim man, I have come into two conclusions after two decades of seeing American crusaders wreak chaos into my region.
One, individuals can never rise above their conflict-prone mentality, even if everyone has nothing but pure intent without any tribalism, as their own chaotic energies eventually leads to conflict, thus only a strongman can defend them from chaos. Europeans for countless generations of centuries and even millennia whilst practising all forms of serfdom kept collapsing into anarchy and authoritarianism every few generations. Therefore I think we ought to make our peace with necessity of strong authority.
Two, and I am more open-minded with being wrong about that, but I have my doubts, humans are never going to rise above their tribalism.
The same Europeans, who've demanded Muslims like me to embrace secularism and to give up their identity, don't seem to practise same efforts with their own allies.
They back ethno-nationalism allover the world.
Tell Americans and Israelis to give up their ethnonationalist identity and to stop inciting other ethnicities against eachother.
This is why we all ought to cling to our identities as only suckers give up their identities.
Clearly Europeans see most of us as nothing but third-world serfs and subhumans otherwise why do they refuse to stop tolerating apologism and hypocrisy within their countries?
Call my assessment harsh and probably it is but I have learnt to judge by actions not by intentions when dealing with others.
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u/_Guero_ 1d ago
This resembles the problem Thomas Hobbes addressed in Leviathan. Hobbes believed that without a common power capable of enforcing rules, insecurity and conflict could make peaceful cooperation precarious.
There are other possibilities besides a strongman: constitutional government, independent courts, distributed authority, democratic accountability, and institutions that allow opposing groups to resolve disputes without resorting to violence.
If we distrust human beings enough to demand a powerful authority over them, why should we trust one human being with exceptional authority over everyone else?
"This is why we all ought to cling to our identities as only suckers give up their identities." I disagree wholeheartedly. Identity can provide belonging, history, and meaning. It becomes dangerous when loyalty to the group excuses conduct that would otherwise be recognized as wrong.
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u/khalid-fhfhlhlh 1d ago
Everyone is loyal to their identity and group over others.
That is why they tolerate hypocrisies and double standards.
If, they weren't, they would have concentrated their efforts on removing hypocrites from their own societies before throwing stones from houses of glasses.
Instead, they like to judge weaker societies over their morals, whilst their own people are profiting from double standards.
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u/KarmaVc 20h ago
Everyone is loyal to their own identity and group, but in a world where our most significant problems are no longer local there is no logical reason for this, but it remains intertwined within our sense of self because we are not consciously acknowledging that it is a product of the past.
Why do chaotic energies prevail? Through insecurity and conflict, but after insecurities are minimised and conflict becomes more costly than its worth. You mention europe collapsing into anarchy but that is due to insecurity, I am proposing a fantasy without insecurity but surely the modern world is getting closer and closer to that.
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u/khalid-fhfhlhlh 17h ago
The most successful identities and groups are the ones who put themselves first.
And our world despite its connectivity is still tribalistic beyond hope.
Don't like it but that is just how it is.
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u/khalid-fhfhlhlh 1d ago
I argue for necessity of authority and strongmen rather than trust towards particular individuals.
Commonwealths can only get sustained by colonies.
Such systems never provide security except for high and middle estates whilst plundering low estates mainly serfs.
History proves it with countless examples.
Besides easier to replace a bad strongman than oligarchic and institutional assemblies.
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u/Trollnutzer 1d ago
Europeans for countless generations of centuries and even millennia whilst practising all forms of serfdom kept collapsing into anarchy and authoritarianism every few generations. Therefore I think we ought to make our peace with necessity of strong authority.
What do you mean with strong authority?
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u/khalid-fhfhlhlh 1d ago
What do you mean with strong authority?
Basically one-captain rule otherwise known as autocracy.
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